Google Forms vs Microsoft Forms vs Tally

Written head to head: Google Forms vs Microsoft Forms, with when to choose each side.

Compared on	Google Forms Free plan · from $7/user/mo VisitRemove	Microsoft Forms Free plan · from $5.40/user/mo VisitRemove	Tally Free plan · from $24.17/mo VisitRemove
What it is	Google's form and quiz builder, free with a Google Account, with responses that flow into Google Sheets	Microsoft's survey, quiz and poll builder, free with a Microsoft account and included in Microsoft 365	Doc-style form builder with unlimited free forms and submissions, logic, payments and Notion integration
Free plan	Free with a personal Google Account. Google's pages read do not state a form or response limit; files count toward the 15 GB of storage free Google Drive users get. Gemini features need an eligible paid plan.	With a free Microsoft account (Hotmail, Live or Outlook.com): up to 400 forms or quizzes plus 400 polls, up to 200 questions per form, and up to 200 responses per form	Unlimited forms and submissions within the fair use policy (examples of extensive use: 50,000 submissions a month, 100 GB of uploads a month); payments, signatures, file uploads up to 10 MB per file, conditional logic and calculations, Tally AI, integrations; Tally branding
Cheapest paid plan	$7/user/mo billed annually (Business Starter)Google Forms pricing	$5.40/user/mo billed annually (Microsoft 365 Business Basic (no Teams))Microsoft Forms pricing	$24.17/mo billed annually (Pro)Tally pricing
What it covers	$8.40 per user a month on the Flexible Plan (no commitment) or $7 per user a month on the Annual Plan ($84 per user a year). Starter, Standard and Plus can be bought for up to 300 users.	$5.40 per user a month paid yearly, annual subscription that auto-renews; $7.00 with Teams. Includes Forms, Bookings and Planner, web and mobile Office apps and custom business email, for up to 300 users. Work accounts can collect up to 5,000,000 responses per form.	$29 a month or $290 a year (2 months free), excluding VAT; unlimited team members; removes Tally branding and the 10 MB file size limit.
Free trial	14-day free trial of Google Workspace for new customers, for up to 10 users; billing details needed, charged only after the trial	One month free of Microsoft 365 Personal, Family or Premium, and of Microsoft 365 Business Standard	None stated
Platforms	Web	Web	Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated	Native integrations including Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Make and n8n, plus 2,000+ web apps through Zapier
Open source	No	No	No
Good for	Quick surveys, quizzes and sign-up forms at no cost Teams that already keep their data in Google Sheets and Google Workspace Classroom quizzes and internal feedback forms	Quick polls and surveys inside Teams and Outlook Classroom quizzes for schools on Office 365 Education Internal staff surveys in organizations already on Microsoft 365	Collecting unlimited responses on a free plan Notion users who want submissions sent to Notion Startups and creators taking payments or sign-ups without a paid form tool
Watch out for	Its pages do not describe collecting payments in a form Gemini form creation and response summaries need an eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plan Gemini summaries need 3 to 200 responses, skip quiz responses and are not saved	A free personal Microsoft account caps each form at 200 responses (1,000 on a paid personal subscription) Copilot in Forms needs a Microsoft 365 account and a Copilot license; the Copilot chat pane is limited to commercial Copilot-licensed users Its pages do not describe collecting payments in a form	Branding removal, custom domains, team workspaces, partial submissions and drop-off analytics need Pro File uploads are capped at 10 MB per file on the free plan Usage beyond the fair use policy, for example 50,000 submissions a month for several months, moves to a custom plan billed quarterly
Made by	Google LLC	Microsoft Corporation	Tally BV

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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